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Watching: Thinkabout

0.0•1979-09-17•1 Seasons

Season 1

Episode 31

Seasons

Episodes

Finding Alternatives: Why Bother?

Finding Alternatives: Brainstorming

Finding Alternatives: Blockbusting

Finding Alternatives: You Can Remember

Estimating and Approximating: Estimating

Estimating and Approximating: Approximating

Estimating and Approximating: Using Estimating and Approximating

Estimating and Approximating: Find Your Guide

Giving & Getting Meaning: What's the Meaning?

Giving & Getting Meaning: Meaning is More than Words

Giving & Getting Meaning: Remember the Audience!

Giving & Getting Meaning: But What Does It Mean?

Giving & Getting Meaning: The Bigger Picture

Giving & Getting Meaning: Where Are You Coming From?

Challenge #1: Time Capsule: Make a Present for the Future

Collecting Information: What Do I Know?

Collecting Information: Where Should I Go?

Collecting Information: What Should I Do?

Collecting Information: There are Ways to Remember

Classifying: Classifying Objects

Classifying: Classifying Information

Classifying: Stereotyping People

Classifying: There Are Many Ways to Go

Finding Patterns: People Patterns

Finding Patterns: Communication Patterns

Finding Patterns: Cultural Patterns

Finding Patterns: Nature's Patterns

A Challenge: Search for the Unknown

Generalizing: Drawing Conclusions

Generalizing: Checking Conclusions

A Tip: Practice for Success

Sequencing & Scheduling: One Step at a Time

Sequencing & Scheduling: Plan Ahead

Sequencing and Scheduling: Calm Your Jitters!

Using Criteria: What Are They?

Using Criteria: Where Do You Get Them?

Using Criteria: How Do You Change That?

A Challenge: Design a Language

Reshaping Information: Symbols

Reshaping Information: More Than You Think

Reshaping Information: Summarizing

Reshaping Information: Maps and Models

A Tip: Get Ahead with Goals

Judging Information: Should I Believe It?

Judging Information: What's Important?

Judging Information: What's Enough?

Judging Information: Point of View

Judging Information: Persuasive Techniques

A Tip: Make a Deal with Yourself

Communicating Effectively: Styles of Communication

Communicating Effectively: Planning a Presentation

Communicating Effectively: Making a Presentation

Communicating Effectively: Making Your Point!

Communicating Effectively: Making It Come Alive

A Challenge: Make Something New

Solving Problems: One Thing Leads to Another

Solving Problems: A Matter of Time

Solving Problems: There's Always a Risk

Solving Problems: Hanging in There

Plan a City of the Future

Overview

Thinkabout, "a cooperative project for acquiring skills essential to learning", was an instructional program for children, produced in 1979 by the Agency for Instructional Television, in association with various contributing television stations in the United States and Canada. It was distributed to PBS and educational stations across the US and Canada as late as the mid-to-late 1980s. The sixty programs produced were aimed for fifth and sixth grade students to understand their learning process in topics as varied as language arts, mathematics, study skills, as well as thinking skills. Thinkabout was funded by various state and local agencies, with additional support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, one of very few CPB-funded programs not distributed by PBS.